Chapter Summaries

Xu Yi returned after three years and faced a gathering of powerful family representatives demanding a steep reduction in their tribute. When negotiations broke down, Third Young Master You led the group forward, and Xu Yi challenged them to reveal their plan.

• Xu Yi reunited with Feng Sihai, who arranged a gathering and invited the families through the Ruyi Pearl.
• Third Young Master You asked Xu Yi to reduce the tribute, proposing that each family pay two thousand a year.
• Xu Yi rejected the offer and demanded that You San bring his father, while sensing powerful family heads waiting outside.
• You Bingjun arrived with the other family leaders, and he and Third Young Master You argued privately over whether to attack Xu Yi.
• Xu Yi said the families could stop paying Zhong Mou's share and prepared to leave, but Third Young Master You led the group forward.
• Xu Yi recognized that the group had planned an attack and challenged them to bring out everything they had.

Xu Yi faced the seven families and Stone Buddha Old Ancestor, refusing to back down despite the Yang Fish cultivator’s threat. Stone Buddha withdrew, leaving You Bingjun’s carefully planned effort to force Xu Yi out in disarray.

• You Bingjun called for Stone Buddha Old Ancestor, who appeared and ordered Xu Yi to leave.
• Xu Yi recognized Stone Buddha’s unstable aura and mocked the families for relying on an injured Yang Fish cultivator.
• Stone Buddha unleashed his Yang Fish presence, but Xu Yi challenged him and the families to attack together.
• Stone Buddha said he would not bring shame upon Southern Pole Sect and vanished without fighting.
• You Bingjun’s plan faltered as the families hesitated to attack, wary of Xu Yi’s reputation despite their resentment over the resources they had been sending him.

Xu Yi forced the houses at Blood Sea Villa to accept increased tribute after they abandoned their challenge, then learned that he would lead a team to Yun Jing Palace in seven days. Shao Yong explained that Martial Uncle Ji’s appointment as principal palace envoy created the opportunity, but Xu Yi was too junior to seek a post there.

• You Bingjun tried to rally the houses to fight Xu Yi, but Feng Jinbo and other family heads refused to risk it.
• You Bingjun beat Third Young Master You and announced that he would confine him for thirty years, but Xu Yi demanded that every house increase its tribute by twenty percent.
• Xu Yi returned to the sect and learned that the sect master had gone back into seclusion shortly after emerging.
• Shao Yong told Xu Yi that he would lead the team to Yun Jing Palace in seven days because Martial Uncle Ji was taking the position of principal palace envoy.
• Shao Yong advised Xu Yi to focus on making a good impression at Yun Jing Palace and wait until he reached the Third Realm of Yin Fish before seeking a position.

Xu Yi learned from Shao Yong that reaching Yang Fish required an Extreme Yin Line, a resource controlled by the two Immortal Palaces, and heard about the Southern Pole Sect’s connections and treasures. The conversation ended with Shao Yong explaining why Martial Uncle Ji could not take the sect’s Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler to Yun Jing Immortal Palace.

• Shao Yong discovered Xu Yi had reached the Third Realm of Yin Fish in only three years and explained that breaking through to Yang Fish required an Extreme Yin Line.
• Shao Yong described how Yun Jing Palace and Shao Yi Palace controlled Extreme Yin Lines and said Martial Uncle Ji’s new envoy post could improve the Southern Pole Sect’s prospects.
• Shao Yong told Xu Yi that the Southern Pole Sect’s three Yang Fish Great Powers included two who had fallen, and that Martial Uncle Ji had not returned for over fifty years.
• Shao Yong explained that Yun Jing Immortal Palace had taken back the fifth-rank Titan Dragon Python, which Martial Uncle Ji had once been responsible for herding.
• Shao Yong told Xu Yi that the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler was the sect’s supreme treasure and that only the sect master could hold it under the sect rules.

Xu Yi brought the Southern Pole Sect’s offering to Yun Jing Immortal Palace, where officials subjected the envoys to a confusing test and tried to pressure them into handing over their offerings. He left the Immortal Welcoming Hall without surrendering the Sumeru Ring, determined to wait for proper procedures.

• Shao Yong gave Xu Yi a Sumeru Ring containing three hundred thousand Profound Yellow Pills and sent him off with six trained Inner Sect Disciples.
• Xu Yi and his party arrived at Yun Jing Immortal Palace and stayed at the Tianrun courtyard until a Yellow Turban Strongman summoned him to the Immortal Welcoming Hall.
• A slant-browed Yellow Turban Strongman claimed the ceremony was canceled and demanded Xu Yi hand over the offering, then revealed that he had been testing Xu Yi and let him proceed.
• Xu Yi met other Offering Envoys in the hall, and they speculated that Yun Jing Palace was selecting officials after putting them through a test.
• A brocade-robed Yang Fish Great Power denounced the envoys for trying to guess their superiors’ intentions and ordered them all out.
• Several envoys left their Sumeru Rings behind, but Xu Yi walked out without handing over the Southern Pole Sect’s offering.

Xu Yi was lured into a guarded secret chamber at the Yun Jing Immortal Palace, where Old Desolate discovered that it was a deadly trap. With the guards closing in, Xu Yi tried to conceal his escape preparations by scattering Profound Yellow Pills and pretending to fight someone.

• Tong Tianchuan announced that eight candidates had passed and collected Xu Yi’s Sumeru Ring.
• Old Desolate warned Xu Yi that Tong Tianchuan had looked at him strangely and found Guan Ying and the others had been summoned to Sky Algae Pavilion.
• Xu Yi entered a restriction-bound secret chamber, and Old Desolate slipped out to investigate.
• Old Desolate discovered that Yellow Turban Strongmen guarded the chamber and learned it was a torture chamber lined with arrow traps.
• Old Desolate returned exhausted and urged Xu Yi to escape before the formation activated.
• Tan Chun and Wei Danian approached the chamber and saw Xu Yi scattering Profound Yellow Pills while swinging at empty air.

Xu Yi escaped Sky Algae Pavilion after killing its guards, but learned that Ji Ying’s flight had left him and his companions in danger. Meng Feishi’s coup against Ji Ying had turned the Southern Pole Sect visitors into potential scapegoats.

• Wei Danian and Tan Chun tried to seize the Profound Yellow Pills, but Xu Yi captured them and took their Starry Sky Rings.
• Xu Yi killed the Yellow Turban Strongmen who rushed to the pavilion, took their life wheels, and escaped through the closing gates, losing and regrowing his left arm.
• Xu Yi disguised himself as a Yellow Turban Strongman and discovered that his Ruyi Pearl could not send messages.
• Huangmei explained that Meng Feishi had used evidence about Ji Ying’s friendship with Xiao Beihe to have Ji Ying confined and cut off from outside help.
• After learning Xiao Beihe was a covert agent of Shao Yi Palace, Ji Ying fled, leaving Xu Yi and the other Southern Pole Sect visitors exposed to Meng Feishi’s killing intent.

Xu Yi refined a Restriction Token and tried to escape Yun Jing Immortal Palace, but the Insight Mirror exposed him and Tong Tianchuan led a force to capture him. When the gate failed to open, Xu Yi was surrounded, yet he redirected a barrage of attacks against the Yellow Turban Strongmen closing in from behind.

• Xu Yi recovered inside the Four-Colored Seal, refined a Restriction Token taken from defeated Yellow Turban Strongmen, and left Xi Chun Pavilion as guards ordered everyone out.
• The Insight Mirror identified Xu Yi as the thief, and he used the Stone Fire Art to flee while Tong Tianchuan recognized him as a Southern Pole Sect Offering Envoy who had survived Sky Algae Pavilion’s death cell.
• Xu Yi activated the Restriction Token at the gate, but it did not respond; Tong Tianchuan explained that the highest-level restrictions had been activated to capture Ji Ying.
• Hundreds of Yellow Turban Strongmen surrounded Xu Yi, and the northern group launched more than a hundred attacks at him.
• Xu Yi formed a glowing box that redirected the northern group’s attacks into the unprepared Yellow Turban Strongmen to the south, stunning Tong Tianchuan and the others.

Xu Yi evaded the search by disguising himself and blended into the Yellow Turban Strongmen as he headed toward the battle between Ji Ying and Meng Feishi. While the two Third Realm of Yang Fish experts fought to the death, Xu Yi watched under the crushing pressure of their power.

• Xu Yi escaped the formation wall and, despite Huang Mei urging him toward Jinping Sea, turned north to assess the chaos.
• Xu Yi disguised himself as a Crimson Flame Thunder Monkey and joined the Yellow Turban Strongmen, causing Tong Tianchuan's Insight Mirror to lose track of him.
• Tong Tianchuan ordered his subordinates to search for Xu Yi, while Xu Yi joined the operation surrounding Ji Ying.
• Ji Ying and Meng Feishi began their death match, and the force of their battle pressed most onlookers to the ground.
• Ji Ying shattered Meng Feishi's attack and unleashed a blazing surge of energy toward him.

Meng Feishi exposed Ji Ying’s escape plan and fought him until Ji Ying used Myriad Transformations to flee. Xu Yi evaded Tong Tianchuan’s search by blending into the pursuit, then followed Long Jintang’s force to guard a herd of Sky Horses above Jinping Sea.

• Meng Feishi revealed to Ji Ying that he had never captured Xiao Beihe, causing Ji Ying to lose focus and take a heavy blow.
• Ji Ying transformed into a golden javelin and dispersed the envoys’ combined attack, but Meng Feishi’s silver-thread horsetail whisk knocked him down.
• Ji Ying transformed into a life wheel and vanished, and Meng Feishi sent his forces after him while Xu Yi joined the pursuit.
• Tong Tianchuan searched the crowd for Xu Yi, who stayed calm and continued flying to avoid exposing himself.
• Meng Feishi ordered Long Jintang to take half the men to guard the Sky Horses after a wave of freezing water vapor swept over them.
• Xu Yi followed Long Jintang’s force above Jinping Sea and saw more than three hundred Sky Horses gathered there.

Xu Yi escaped Yun Jing Immortal Palace by riding A Tuft of Gold, but Tong Tianchuan tracked him down and confronted him. Tong Tianchuan identified Xu Yi as a person with two life wheels and unleashed Yang Fish Suppression as their fight began.

• Ji Ying disrupted the Sky Horse herd while fleeing Meng Feishi, giving Xu Yi a chance to escape.
• Xu Yi rode A Tuft of Gold out of the herd, with Tong Tianchuan pursuing him in a Starry Sky Boat.
• Xu Yi lost the Starry Sky Boat by hiding in the Four-Colored Seal, then used earth and water evasion to reach the Han River.
• Xu Yi received no reply from the Southern Pole Sect, ate and rested, then faced Tong Tianchuan, who had caught up using the Insight Mirror.
• Tong Tianchuan guessed that Xu Yi had two life wheels, and Xu Yi attacked him with the Unknowing Sword.
• Tong Tianchuan dispelled Xu Yi's swords and released Yang Fish Suppression, overwhelming Xu Yi with the pressure of a higher life form.

Xu Yi killed Tong Tianchuan and hurried to the Southern Pole Sect, only to find Yun Jing Immortal Palace destroying it with Starry Sky Boats. Zhang Daohan and Ji Ying drove off the fleet, and Ji Ying declared that he would wait for Meng Feishi at the sect.

• Tong Tianchuan chased Xu Yi under the Yangfish's suppression, but Xu Yi counterattacked and killed him with square boxes and golden-armored men.
• Xu Yi sealed Tong Tianchuan's life wheel in a Soul Locking Bottle, collected the scattered treasures, and took the Insight Mirror.
• Xu Yi reached the Southern Pole Sect and watched Yun Jing Immortal Palace's Starry Sky Boats shatter its protective barrier and bombard the sect.
• Zhang Daohan used his jade ruler to destroy and damage several Starry Sky Boats as a man charged into the fleet and smashed more of them.
• The surviving Starry Sky Boats fled, and Ji Ying vowed to wait for Meng Feishi at the Southern Pole Sect.

Ji Ying tried to persuade Zhang Daohan to hand over the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler so he could kill Meng Feishi, but Zhang saw through his feigned sacrifice and refused. Ji Ying attacked, and Zhang retreated south with Ji Ying in pursuit.

• Zhang Daohan accused Ji Ying of abandoning the Southern Pole Sect and returning to seize the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler.
• Ji Ying argued that he had protected the sect and promised to use the treasure to avenge it by killing Meng Feishi.
• Ji Ying pretended to sacrifice himself, but Zhang Daohan exposed the slow dissipation of his life wheel as a ploy.
• Ji Ying attacked Zhang Daohan, whose Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler shattered the golden strike.
• Ji Ying pursued Zhang Daohan south, taunting him and forcing him to spend strength defending with the treasure.
• Zhang Daohan passed Fish Mouth Peak, which had suffered little damage in the bombardment.

Xu Yi and Zhang Daohan joined forces to ambush Ji Ying, but Ji Ying overwhelmed their attacks until Zhang Daohan burned his life wheels to unleash a fatal strike. Ji Ying was annihilated, and Xu Yi gathered a remnant of his life-wheel power before finding Zhang Daohan mortally broken.

• Xu Yi ambushed Ji Ying at Fish Mouth Peak while Zhang Daohan lured him forward, but Ji Ying smashed through the Golden Armored Generals and pursued Zhang Daohan.
• Ji Ying’s golden javelin struck Zhang Daohan, who used the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler to repel it, leaving both men badly wounded.
• Xu Yi attacked Ji Ying with Golden Armored Generals, his life wheels, and an illusion artifact, briefly trapping Ji Ying before the yin-yang fish broke the illusion.
• Ji Ying swept away the Golden Armored Generals and sent the yin-yang fish at Xu Yi, but Zhang Daohan burned his life wheels to power the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler’s annihilating strike.
• Ji Ying disintegrated, and Xu Yi absorbed some of his scattered life-wheel power into the Soul Locking Bottle before taking the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler and examining Zhang Daohan’s shattered body.

After the Southern Pole Sect was destroyed, Xu Yi buried its dead and fled to his old island hideout, where he used Huang Mei to uncover Ji Ying’s memories. He learned that Xiao Beihe was really Chu Feng, a Shao Yi Palace agent who had deliberately exposed himself to ignite a power struggle, and began using that knowledge to pursue his own plan.

• Xu Yi buried Zhang Daohan and the other Southern Pole Sect dead, then left for his secluded island cave rather than risk returning to Jin State.
• Xu Yi revived Huang Mei with fate-wheel resources and ordered him to digest Ji Ying’s memories for information.
• Xu Yi heard Xiao Beihe offer Ji Ying Shao Yi Palace’s protection and realized the palace did not know Ji Ying was dead and wanted something he possessed.
• After Huang Mei extracted Ji Ying’s memories, Xu Yi contacted Xiao Beihe and accused him of deliberately causing Ji Ying’s predicament.
• Xu Yi identified Xiao Beihe as Chu Feng, a Shao Yi Palace agent who had planted a clue for Meng Feishi to intensify Yun Jing Immortal Palace’s internal struggle.

Xu Yi used Ji Ying’s identity to threaten Chu Feng with the secret of Guan Shui, forcing Chu Feng to negotiate a meeting at Phoenix Tail Mountain. Afterward, Xu Yi entered the Four-Colored Seal Space to refine two Acquired Spiritual Treasures and considered how their restrictions governed their use.

• Xu Yi recognized that Xiao Beihe was Chu Feng and used Ji Ying’s memories to reveal that Guan Shui was imprisoned, catching Chu Feng off guard.
• Xu Yi warned Chu Feng that Guan Shui’s capture could expose Shao Yi Palace’s secret conflict with Yun Jing Immortal Palace, then demanded a meeting at Phoenix Tail Mountain in three days.
• Chu Feng discussed Ji Ying’s message with Song Nuan, who proposed capturing Ji Ying and said he would speak with Palace Envoy Xu.
• Xu Yi entered the Four-Colored Seal Space to refine the Insight Mirror and the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler.
• Xu Yi recalled that Spiritually Communicating Treasures required their ancient restrictions to be refined and personal restrictions to be added, and that Bloodline Restrictions could grant temporary use.

Xu Yi refined the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler and the Insight Mirror, then arranged to meet Chu Feng at Moon Bath Peak. When Chu Feng’s hidden team was exposed, Xu Yi threatened to reveal Guan Shui to Yun Jing Immortal Palace unless Chu showed sincerity.

• Desolate Charm Old Ancestor explained that Xu Yi could add a Life Wheel Restriction to the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler, and Xu Yi refined it over two days and nights.
• Xu Yi stopped the Four-Colored Seal Space from breaking down the Insight Mirror, then spent three more days breaking its old restriction and refining it.
• Xu Yi contacted Chu Feng and set a meeting at Moon Bath Peak, while Chu Feng and Song Nuan arranged for a team to follow behind him.
• At Moon Bath Peak, Xu Yi accused Chu Feng of sending seven men to ambush him and threatened to hand Guan Shui over to Yun Jing Immortal Palace.

Xu Yi lured Chu Feng to Howling Ape Peak and killed him, then used Ji Ying’s leverage to force Song Nuan and the others into negotiations. The chapter ended with Xu Yi introducing himself as Zhong Ruyi and being recognized by one of Song Nuan’s companions.

• Chu Feng agreed to meet Ji Ying at Howling Ape Peak, but found Xu Yi waiting there to negotiate in Ji Ying’s place.
• Xu Yi tricked Chu Feng with the Spiritually Communicating Treasure and killed him with the Taiyi Light Splitting Ruler, while Huang Mei swallowed Chu Feng’s fleeing life wheel.
• Xu Yi recovered from the ruler’s backlash and received a message from Tong Tianchuan saying he had seen Shao Yi Palace’s contact but could not break away.
• Song Nuan and six others searched Howling Ape Peak, then learned through the Ruyi Pearl that Ji Ying had captured Chu Feng and intended to use him as leverage.
• Xu Yi arrived and claimed he was Zhong Ruyi, prompting a companion of Song Nuan to recognize him as the man who had delivered offerings at Yun Jing Immortal Palace and escaped.

Xu Yi persuaded Jiang Zhun to open the Extreme Yin Hall so he could refine an Extreme Yin Line on Ji Ying’s behalf. Inside, Old Desolate explained that Xu Yi’s breakthrough could let him refine an unending Extreme Yin Line, but warned that Shao Yi Righteous Immortal was meditating nearby and escape might be difficult.

• Xu Yi insisted that Shao Yi Palace grant him access to an Extreme Yin Line, and Song Nuan urged Jiang Zhun to approve the request.
• Jiang Zhun resisted opening the Extreme Yin Hall because its Yin energy was scarce, but Song Nuan explained the crisis involving Chu Feng and Yun Jing Immortal Palace.
• Jiang Zhun offered Xu Yi a position in Shao Yi Palace, but Xu Yi refused and maintained that the Extreme Yin Line mattered to someone else.
• Song Nuan persuaded Jiang Zhun that granting the line could prove Shao Yi Palace’s sincerity to Ji Ying, and Jiang Zhun gave him the token to open the hall.
• Xu Yi entered the Extreme Yin Hall and examined the Extreme Yin Furnace and its remaining Yin energy.
• Old Desolate told Xu Yi that refining an Extreme Yin Line during an uninterrupted breakthrough could make it continue without end, then warned him that Shao Yi Righteous Immortal was meditating nearby.

Xu Yi broke through both his demonic-body and true-body Life Wheels toward the Yang Fish Realm, triggering a spectacle that drew Shao Yi Righteous Immortal into Extreme Yin Hall. Shao Yi Righteous Immortal recognized Xu Yi’s Golden Life Wheel and coveted it, while Huang Mei urged Xu Yi to hide his demonic-body Life Wheel.

• Xu Yi used the Extreme Yin Line from the Extreme Yin Furnace to nourish his demonic-body Life Wheel until its Yin Fish became a Yang Fish.
• Xu Yi began the same breakthrough with his true-body Life Wheel as multicolored Holy Light erupted from Extreme Yin Hall’s mountain.
• Jiang Zhun and other Shao Yi Immortal Palace members gathered outside Extreme Yin Hall, where Shao Yi Righteous Immortal appeared and entered through the sealed doors.
• Shao Yi Righteous Immortal ignored Xu Yi and stared greedily at his Golden Life Wheel, revealing that he had set a restriction to detect one.
• Huang Mei warned Xu Yi that Shao Yi Righteous Immortal wanted his Life Wheel and urged him to hide his demonic-body Life Wheel in the Starry Sky Ring.